Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Friday's Miscellany 09-18-2020

 38 North

 Aerospace Industries Association (AIA)

 Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

 Amnesty International

 Arctic Institute

 Army Corps of Engineers

 Army University Press

  • Military Review, September-October  2020, v. 100, no. 5
    • The Question: Why Would China Not Invade Taiwan Now?
    • Time Horizons Drive Potential Taiwan Cross-Strait Conflict
    • How to Counter China’s Disinformation Campaign in Taiwan
    • Economic Warfare: China’s Financial Alternative to Military Reunification with Taiwan
    • Taiwan and the U.S. Army: New Opportunities amid Increasing Threats
    • Deterring the Dragon: Returning U.S. Forces to Taiwan
    • Drive Them into the Sea
    • Russian New Generation Warfare: Deterring and Winning at the Tactical Level
    • Steal the Firewood from Under the Pot: The Role of Intellectual Property Theft in Chinese Global Strategy
    • Venezuela in Light of Anti-American Parties and Affiliations in Latin America
    • The 2003 Battle of Baghdad: A Case Study of Urban Battle during Large-Scale Combat Operations
    • Strong Reasons Make Strong Actions: Closing the Leadership Gap in the Army Medical Corps
    • Unit Status Reports and the Gaming of Readiness
    • Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character
    • The Long March: A Generational Approach to Achieving the People’s Republic of China Strategic Objective to Annex Taiwan

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Atlantic Council

 Australian National University – Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs

 Australian National University Press

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

 Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

 Blair Institute for Global Change

 Brookings 

 Brown University Costs of War Project

 Bruegel

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 CATO Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) 

 Center for Global Development

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Policy

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Global Energy Policy

 Chatham House

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 Civic IDEA

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         Stepping Out from the Shadows: The Interrogation of the Islamic State’s Future Caliph

·         The al-Mawla TIRs: An Analytical Discussion with Cole Bunzel, Haroro Ingram, Gina Ligon, and Craig Whiteside

·         The Future Role of the U.S. Armed Forces in Counterterrorism

·         The Crisis Within Jihadism: The Islamic State’s Puritanism vs. al-Qa`ida’s Populism

 Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

 Congress. House. Energy & Commerce Committee

 Congress. House. Financial Services Committee

 Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

 Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

 Congress. House. Oversight & Reform Committee

 Congress. House. Science, Space, & Technology Committee

 Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

 Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Crowdstrike

 Cyberspace Solarium Commission

 Defense Science Board (DSB)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-20-63 FEMA Should Recover $216.2 Million Awarded to the Recovery School District in Louisiana for Hurricane Katrina
  • OIG-20-68 FEMA Is Not Effectively Administering a Program to Reduce or Eliminate Damage to Severe Repetitive Loss Properties

 Department of State

 Department of State Inspector General

  • ISP-20-25 Management Assistance Report: Deficiencies in Overseas Records Management

 Department of the Air Force

 East-West Center

 Egmont Institute

 Elliot School of International Affairs

  • International Affairs Review, Summer 2020, v. 28, no. 2
    • Prolific, Digital, and Violent: The Far-Right’s Online ‘Republic of Letters’
    • A Talk With Tish: Leading with Integrity
    • Which Side Are You On, Comrade? Potential for Convergent Protests across the People’s Republic of China
    • The Return of Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Opportunities for Chechnya and Dagestan to Quell Local Insurgencies
    • China’s Military Employment of Artificial Intelligence and Its Security Implications
    • Implications for NATO: Latvia and the Russian Hybrid Warfare Threat

 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats

 European Parliament

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  • FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, September 2020 
    • Behavioral Health Training for Police Officers: A Prevention Program
    • Confessions in Intimate Partner Homicide
    • Community Outreach Spotlight: Pedal Power
    • Leadership Spotlight: Finding Purpose

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

 French Institute of International Relations

 George Washington University Program on Extremism

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

 Globsec

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Conflict Minerals: Actions Needed to Assess Progress Addressing Armed Groups' Exploitation of Minerals GAO-20-595
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection: Treasury Needs to Improve Tracking of Financial Sector Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation Efforts GAO-20-631
  • Defense Health Care: Implementation of Value-Based Initiatives in TRICARE GAO-20-695R
  • Internet of Things: Information on Use by Federal Agencies GAO-20-577
  • Private Health Coverage: Results of Covert Testing for Selected Offerings GAO-20-634R
  • Public Health Preparedness: Information on the Use of Medical Reserve Corps Volunteers during Emergencies GAO-20-630
  • Telecommunications: FCC Should Take Action to Better Manage Persistent Fraud Risks in the Schools and Libraries Program GAO-20-606  
  • VA Acquisition Management: COVID-19 Response Strains Supply Chain While Modernization Delays Continue GAO-20-716T [testimony]
  • Veterans Affairs: VA Needs to Address Persistent IT Modernization and Cybersecurity Challenges GAO-20-719T [testimony]

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Heritage Foundation

 Hoover Institute

  • Strategika, September 4, 2020, no. 67
    • U.S. Troop Deployments in Germany
    • America—A European Power No More? Shifting Tectonics, Changing Interests, And The Shrinking Size Of U.S. Troops In Europe
    • Is It Wise To Pull Out And Redeploy 12,000 U.S. Troops From Germany?
    • Return Of Forces From Germany?

 HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 IJ Infinity Group

  • Military Strategy Magazine, Summer 2020, v. 7, no. 2
    • The New Unequal Dialogue: Professional Military Advice in the Age of AI-Analytics
    • The Idlib Campaign 2019 - 2020
    • Strategic Decision Making - A Case Study
    • Improvident Strategy: When Process Supplants Policy in Targeted Killing
    • Antifragile Adversaries: How to Defeat Them?
    • From Strategy to Military Capability: the Austrian Example

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS)

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

 Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

 Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy (ISPSW)

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Organization for Migration (IOM)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, September 16, 2020, v. 20, no
    • The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation and United Front “Lobbying Laundering” in American Politics
    • Examining China’s Organ Transplantation System: The Nexus of Security, Medicine, and Predation / Part 3:China’s United Front Tactics in Managing the Narrative on Organ Trafficking
    • The Role of Coopted Diaspora Groups in Czech and European United Front Work
    • The CCP’s United Front Network in Sweden: “Harmonious Diaspora Associations” and Strange Political Bedfellows
    • Putting Money in the Party’s Mouth: How China Mobilizes Funding for United Front Work

 Library of Congress Law Library

 Lowy Institute

 Marine Corps History Division

  • Marine Corps History Magazine, Summer 2020, v. 6, no. 1
    • “Getting the Shells to Fall Where You Want Them”: Coordinating U.S. Naval Gunfire and Air Support in the Interwar Period
    • The “Scholastic” Marine Who Won a Secret War: Frank Holcomb, The OSS, and American Double-Cross Operations in Europe
    • The Brain of the Marine Corps: Alfred M. Gray’s Establishment of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command
    • Photographic Essay: With Hotel Company, 2d Battalion,  5th Marines, in An Hoa
    • Highlight from the Marine Corps Archives From Parris Island to the Pacific: The Service of Edward LeRoy Parke in His Own Words

 Martens Centre for European Studies

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 

Middle East Institute

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

 MITRE

 National Academies Press

 National Security Archive

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

 New America

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

 Omega Research Foundation

 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

 Our World in Data

 Oxford Internet Institute Computational Propaganda Research Project

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

 Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

 Pew Research Center Science & Society

 Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

 Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

 RAND Corporation

 Rockefeller Foundation

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 20-52-FA USAID’s Efforts to Improve Education through the Afghan Children Read Program: Audit of Costs Incurred by Creative Associates International
  • SIGAR-20-53-SP  USAID’s Afghanistan Drip Irrigation Demonstration Project: Most Demonstration Plots That SIGAR Inspected Were Not Being Used As Intended  

 Stimson

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

 Sudd Institute

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

 Taylor & Francis

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDR)

 UN Women

 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

 Wilson Center

 World Bank

 World Economic Forum